
          being continued: But Curtis the proprietor of the Botanical Magaz. [Magazine]
has been persuaded to get up "a companion to the Bot. Mage." this
is published monthly, and either given to the [crossed out: illegible] [added: subscribers] of the mage.
at one shilling, or to non subscribers for one shilling & six pence.
each monthly no. contains 32 pages octavo with 2 octavo plates
partly coloured, or 1 quarto plate, so that the work is very
cheap and ought to be encouraged, but I fear it has not been
properly advertised: I would [advided?] the advertisement to have
been to this effect, that copies of it stitched up with the mage.
would be sent to all the subscriberss who did not signify
the contrary: whereas it is [crossed out: that?] requested that all who wish at
will intimate to their respective booksellers: if the subscribers
once saw it they would take it. In this "companion" Hooker 
& I have recommended publishing the Chilian plants, and 
have already printed the Cicheraceae and Nassauviaceae; in
it also Hooker has continued giving an account of Drummonds
plants.

So much for my labours in spring and part of summer.
I then at the request of Dr Hooker & Professor Graham undertook
to arrange and name their collection of Ceylon
plants (Graham's alone consists of upwards of 30 packets),
and this altho' not directly, yet indirectly is forwarding Wights
& my second volume. I had proceeded so far, [urging?] at
the Ferns, & Gramineae, &c. when I had a request to
send to Prof. Nees v. Esenbeck my N. American Gramineae
& Cyperaceae, and as all Drummonds lay in their original
packets untouched, I had them all to arrange, at present
I have only get over the Cyperaceae, and am so tired of
it, that I almost think I shall go over the Gramineae in
a less troublesome way, and merely send him specimens from
the duplicates, without arranging them.

These occupations will show the utter impossibility
of my yet sending you what you wish from Dr Wights collection
but a good time is coming. I could no doubt have made
for you a packet of the Cyperaceae alone, but then it would
have been against the rule laid down, and which once broken
I must have been sending some to other friends also: besides
I must comply with Wights list of donees, and serve those on
it first: but to make up, I have laid aside for you somewhere 
or other specimens from that I got for myself of most
        